Report Links Teen Smoking, Depression
‘Smoking cigarettes may make teens more susceptible to depression, alcohol abuse, and illegal drug use, a new report states.
Based on data from a government drug use survey, researchers concluded that teens who smoke are nine times more likely to abuse alcohol and 13 times more likely to abuse illegal drugs than teens who don’t smoke.
The report “Tobacco: The Smoking Gun” was released today by the Columbia University’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), led by former U.S. Health, Education and Welfare commissioner Joseph A. Califano Jr.
The report was funded by the anti-tobacco group Citizen’s Commission to Protect the Truth.’
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